Input from those running multiple accounts on one machine.

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The other thing I noticed last night while playing is that one of CPUs in 80% or so loaded while the other three are like 40%. This is from memory, so I will confirm tonight but I know one CPU was working alot harder than the other three.

JamieW: Are you using ISBoxer? If not, you could try setting the other clients to use window mode and then scale them down and see if that helps.

All clients launch set to run primarily on Core 3. You can configuer each instance to run on different cores in your .cfg files ( if windows lets you >< ).


http://isboxer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1090


Note Amrathes comment :

There is another thing you need to do in Rift to make it load balance onto another core.

In the rift.cfg for your characters located in C:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\RIFT (the files are virtualized, so you will see <Charactername>-rift.cfg) look for a setting called Main CPU Thread (it defaulted to 3 on my i7 920). Change that setting to a different core for each account (in my case I set it to maincputhread = 3 on one character and maincputhread = 5 on the other).

If you do that, you will have the primary thread for each account on a different cpu core. After making that change I went from core 3 tapped at 100% to core 3 and 5 tapped at about 80% each.

Set different clients to run primarily on core 1, 3, 5, 7 in the listed file.

Note I found this file in C:\Users\<username>\appdata\roaming\RIFT not C:\Users\<username>\appdata\local\RIFT